Python-API-Testing

Testing Python APIs

Sections.

• Introduction - Brief intro of the article and setup of the application.
• Test Driven Development(TDD) - A bit of explanation on TDD.
• Utilizing Mocks - Explain the concept of mocking and different ways of mocking as follows.
  • Using Decorators
  • Using a Context Manager
  • Using a Patcher
• Mocking the whole function behavior - Demonstrate and explain how its done.
• Mocking third party functions - Demonstrate and explain how to mock out own functions/modules in other functions.
• Continuous integration with Circle CI - Brief walk through of how to combine testing and CI to make our development smooth, use case Github and Circle CI.
• Conclusion - Brief summary touching on mocking and CI.

Setup.

$ git clone git@github.com:kimobrian/Python-API-Testing.git
$ cd Python-API-Testing
$ virtualenv -p python3 venv   # Create virtual environment
$ source venv/bin/activate # Activate virtual environment
$ pip install -r requirements.txt